Pastoral Resources

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.